Hailee Steinfeld Is Not Your Average Teenager, But She Does Love Drake

The actress and musical artist Hailee Steinfeld has always been beyond her years. At the age of thirteen, she landed her first major film role, which happened to be alongside Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon in the Cohen brothers' True Grit. And as she told W magazine in 2013, she cried her eyes out on the last day of shooting, as any teenage girl would on the last day of school. But Damon and Bridges responded reassuringly: "Don’t worry — this is only the beginning.”

Today, Steinfeld is an Oscar-nominated, nineteen-going-on-twenty-year-old pop star (her birthday is this weekend), who most recently played the lead in "The Edge of Seventeen," which was written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig and is being lauded by critics as "The Best Teen Movie In Years." Unlike most teenagers, however, Steinfeld doesn't have time to watch television and was homeschooled after she started acting. Plus, she's got a Swarovski watch on her Christmas list. But, despite all her accolades, Steinfeld still loves normal things, like watching "The Parent Trap," listening to Drake and Eminem, and hanging out with her friends, like Taylor Swift. Totally casual.

Describe yourself as a 17-year-old girl. How were you similar and/or different from your character?The one similarity between my 17-year old self and who I am as a soon-to-be 20-year-old is that I'm no less inquisitive and excited about exploring adulthood. Certainly, I've discovered a lot about myself over the last three years, but my curiosity about life beyond my teen years is really exciting.